Technical recruitment expertise
- Engineering hiring strategy
- Technical requirement clarification
- Direct hiring-manager engagement
- Candidate assessment
- Interview and hiring coordination
- Recruitment accountability
Embedded recruitment service
Your own technical recruiter.
Without hiring one.
Building an embedded engineering team?
Get an experienced technical recruitment partner who understands firmware, FPGA, electronics and embedded Linux. Working directly with your engineering managers, inside your hiring process, focused on getting the right people hired.
- Dedicated technical recruitment partnership
- Monthly engagement plus success-based fees
- Direct access to experienced engineering recruitment expertise
Who it is for
Building an engineering team? We become part of your hiring operation.
The service is designed for organisations with ongoing or repeated specialist requirements. Suitability depends on expected hiring volume, technical complexity and the engagement period—not an arbitrary minimum number of hires.
Engineering disciplines
- Embedded software engineers
- Firmware engineers
- FPGA and RTL engineers
- Electronics and hardware engineers
- Embedded Linux engineers
- Systems and controls engineers
Teams it can support
- Hardware and electronics startups
- Industrial technology companies
- IoT product developers
- Robotics companies
- Medical device manufacturers
- Engineering businesses expanding product teams
Integrated operating model
Your recruitment operation. Integrated with your engineering team.
RunTime works alongside your engineering managers to plan, source, qualify and deliver specialist engineering talent through one coordinated recruitment process.
Highlighting: Engineering Leadership
- 01
Understand Your Engineering Requirements
We work directly with your CTO, engineering managers and technical leads to understand your products, architecture, team and hiring priorities.
- 02
Develop the Hiring Plan
We agree the technical requirements, recruitment priorities, candidate profiles, interview process and expected timelines.
- 03
Find and Qualify Engineers
We research and approach specialist engineers, assess relevant experience and identify candidates worth your engineering team’s time.
- 04
Manage the Hiring Pipeline
We coordinate candidate communication, interviews, feedback and hiring progress while maintaining visibility across the pipeline.
- 05
Build and Grow the Team
We support successful placements and continuously refine the recruitment approach as your engineering requirements evolve.
Continuity across hiring
A recruitment partner who works as part of your business.
Conventional agencies typically operate vacancy by vacancy. The Embedded Recruiter model provides continuity across multiple agreed recruitment requirements.
RunTime builds knowledge of your technical environment, people and priorities, then supports sourcing, candidate evaluation, interview and offer coordination, pipeline visibility and ongoing hiring-manager collaboration.
The scope is agreed with you. The service does not imply unlimited hiring, an exclusively allocated full-time recruiter or a replacement for every internal HR function.
Commercial model
A recruitment model built around your hiring plans.
Our Embedded Recruiter service combines an agreed monthly engagement fee with a reduced success fee for each successful placement.
The commercial structure is tailored to your expected hiring volume, technical requirements and level of recruitment support.
It is designed to provide continuity, accountability and more predictable recruitment expenditure as your engineering team grows.
Discuss Your Hiring PlanWhy RunTime
Technical recruitment built on real engineering experience.
RunTime combines engineering experience with specialist technical recruitment knowledge across the systems and product environments behind each brief.
- Embedded C and C++
- RTOS and bare-metal systems
- Embedded Linux
- Hardware and software integration
- FPGA and digital design recruitment
- Electronics and hardware development
- Engineering product development environments
Founder Lance Harvie has a background in embedded systems and electronics engineering followed by decades of specialist recruitment experience. That gives RunTime an informed understanding of engineering requirements beyond job-description keyword matching.
RunTime Recruitment has operated since 2019.
More about Lance →
Delivery model
Experienced technical judgement. Supported by modern recruitment infrastructure.
You work with one accountable recruitment partner while structured sourcing, coordination and reporting support the delivery operation.
Recruitment infrastructure
- Candidate discovery and sourcing research
- Outreach coordination
- Recruitment pipeline tracking
- Interview scheduling
- Progress reporting and records
Your experience
- One accountable recruitment partner
- Direct technical communication
- A clear recruitment pipeline
- Consistent candidate management
- Continuity across hiring requirements
Choose the right engagement
Choose the recruitment model that fits your hiring plans.
| Attribute | Specialist Recruitment | Embedded Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Best suited for | Individual specialist vacancies | Ongoing engineering hiring |
| Engagement | Vacancy-based | Ongoing partnership |
| Working relationship | Search assignment | Integrated hiring collaboration |
| Hiring requirements | Individual roles | Multiple or recurring roles |
| Commercial structure | Contingency or retained fee | Monthly engagement plus success fee |
| Recruitment continuity | Assignment-based | Across agreed hiring requirements |
| Primary objective | Fill a critical position | Build a specialist engineering team |
Embedded Recruiter FAQ
Quick answers.
What is an Embedded Recruiter?+
An experienced technical recruitment partner who works as part of your hiring process over an agreed engagement period.
How is this different from contingency recruitment?+
Contingency recruitment focuses on individual placements. Embedded recruitment provides continuity across ongoing engineering hiring requirements.
Do we need to hire a full-time recruiter?+
No. RunTime provides an agreed recruitment service without requiring you to employ a dedicated internal recruiter.
How does the commercial model work?+
An agreed monthly engagement fee is combined with a reduced success fee for successful placements. Terms depend on the hiring requirements.
What engineering disciplines do you support?+
Embedded software, firmware, embedded Linux, FPGA, electronics and closely related engineering disciplines.
Can RunTime work with our existing internal HR team?+
Yes. The service can complement an internal HR or talent acquisition function.
Can we begin with one vacancy?+
Yes. RunTime also offers specialist contingency and retained recruitment for individual hires. An embedded arrangement is generally more appropriate for ongoing requirements.
Is the service available in the USA and Australia?+
Yes. The USA and Australia are RunTime’s principal markets.
Start a conversation
Discuss your hiring plan.
Tell us what you expect to hire and when. RunTime will review whether specialist search or an embedded partnership best fits the plan.
Build your engineering team
Your own technical recruiter. Without hiring one.
An ongoing, accountable recruitment relationship built around your engineering hiring plans.